Atheism Quote by Jonathan Rauch

The freedom to make and admit mistakes is at the core of the scientific process. If we are asked to forswear error, or worse,…

— Robert Pollack

To recognize our bias toward error should teach us modesty and reflection, and to forgive it should help us avoid the inhumanity of thinking…

— Marilynne Robinson

Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal.

— Jacob Bronowski

Science is a form of arrogance control.

— Anonymous

Abhorring error is not necessarily positive.

— Ellen Ullman

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Science differs from politics or religion, in precisely this one discipline: we agree in advance to simply reject our own findings when they have…

— Robert Pollack

“Never underestimate the power of a “reasonable-sounding argument”, especially to people who are not scientists.”

— Angelic-Demon

Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to…

— Jules Verne

Scientists make mistakes. Accordingly, it is the job of the scientist to recognize our weakness, to examine the widest range of opinions, to be…

— Carl Sagan

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

— Walter Lippmann